Race and Education
Jackie Robinson Movie Impacts Obamas
WASHINGTON (AP) - Michelle Obama said Tuesday that a new movie chronicling Jackie Robinson's rise through Major League Baseball, including the racial discrimination he endured while breaking the sport's color barrier in the 1940s, left her and the president "visibly, physically moved" after they saw it over the weekend.
The film, "42," also left the couple wondering; "how on Earth, did (the Robinsons) live through that? How did they do it? How did they endure the taunts and the bigotry for all of that time?" she said.
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Immigrant Work Visa Requests Exceed Available Jobs
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Homeland Security Department expects applications for high-skilled immigration visas to exceed the available jobs in a matter of days, one of the fastest runs on the much-sought-after work permits in years and a sign of continued economic recovery amid new hiring by U.S. technology companies.
The urgent race for such visas - highly desired by Microsoft, Apple, Google, and other leading technology companies - coincides with congressional plans to increase the number available to tech-savvy foreigners.
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Conversation Of The Week LII: What Lessons Can The United States Learn From Germany In Passing Immigration Reform?
BERLIN (AP) - In gritty the backstreets of Berlin and other major German cities, women wearing headscarves shop for lamb and grape leaves. Old men pass the time in cafes sipping coffee, chatting in Turkish, and reading Turkish newspapers.
More than 3 million people of Turkish origin live in Germany - the legacy of West Germany's Cold War-era program to recruit temporary foreign labor during the boom years of the 1950s and 1960s while rebuilding the country after World War II.
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Issue Of The Week LII: Do You Think Urban Apartheid Exists In America?
Editor’s Note: The disparities between minorities in urban neighborhoods and whites in suburban neighborhoods are highlighted time, and time again; for decades in one report or the other, by one politician or the other, numerous community activists, and human and civil rights leaders. The most recent attention is the article about “urban apartheid” conditions in New Haven, Connecticut as reported below by the Associated Press.
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Will U.S. Supreme Court End Civil Rights Policies Prematurely?
WASHINGTON (AP) - Will the U.S. Supreme Court end Civil Rights policies prematurely? Has the nation lived down its history of racism and should the law become colorblind?
Addressing two pivotal legal issues, one on affirmative action and a second on voting rights, a divided Supreme Court is poised to answer those questions.
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Racial Harassment At Michigan High School
GRAND HAVEN, Mich. (AP) - Some West Michigan residents want a school district to adopt a clearer policy against harassment following complaints about racial intimidation at a high school that started last year and led to suspensions or expulsions.
Local and federal investigations are ongoing, the Grand Haven Tribune reported. According to a response to the newspaper's Freedom of Information Act request, the federal Office of Civil Rights has asked for video surveillance and communication from the 2011-12 and 2012-13 school years.
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Returning Black Veterans Face Higher Unemployment And Homelessness
With the nomination of Thomas Perez (the son of Dominican immigrants) as Labor Secretary on March 18, President Obama called on him to continue Administration efforts to help returning veterans find jobs. This comes on the heels of the President’s State of the Union pledge that 34,000 U.S.
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Racism And Anti-Semitism Plague New York School
SPRING VALLEY, New York (AP) — School board meetings descend into shouting matches. Accusations of racism and anti-Semitism fly. Angry parents turn their backs on board members in a symbolic stand of disrespect.
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Senator Mitch McConnell And Elaine Chao Victims Of Racism?
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - It isn't Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell who comes out swinging in his first TV ad of his 2014 re-election campaign. It's his wife, former U.S. Labor Secretary Elaine Chao.
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Was Vermont Paper Racist Using Fry Rice Poster?
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - A Vermont newspaper defended itself Saturday against accusations of racism over a poster it published in support of a local sports team that read "fry Rice" in type associated with Chinese calligraphy, saying it meant no offense and simply wanted to play on words.
The back-page poster, printed in Thursday's edition, was intended to support St. Johnsbury Academy's basketball team in its game against Rice Memorial High School in South Burlington, the Caledonian Record wrote in an unsigned editorial.
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